Everyday Life Is Like Programming, I Guess.

Email Is A Wonderful Thing For People Whose Role In Life Is To Be On Top Of Things. But Not For Me; My Role Is To Be On The Bottom Of Things. What I Do Takes Long Hours Of Studying And Uninterruptible Concentration.

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%.

I Currently Use Ubuntu Linux, On A Standalone Laptop - It Has No Internet Connection. I Occasionally Carry Flash Memory Drives Between This Machine And The Macs That I Use For Network Surfing And Graphics; But I Trust My Family Jewels Only To Linux.

My General Working Style Is To Write Everything First With Pencil And Paper, Sitting Beside A Big Wastebasket. Then I Use Emacs To Enter The Text Into My Machine.